Comment by landr0id
16 hours ago
>so a customer without a smartphone could relay the diagnostic session to a technician
Do you mean by mimicking the noises themselves?
16 hours ago
>so a customer without a smartphone could relay the diagnostic session to a technician
Do you mean by mimicking the noises themselves?
No you see you just need to buy specially marked boxes of Cap'n Crunch that have a plastic whistle in them that plays the tones for you.
I wonder how many HN readers still get that reference (and 2600, etc.)
I'm merely middle aged, but I've read the hacker lore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box
We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons...
By holding their phone up to the machine.